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Snow-blind   /snoʊ-blaɪnd/   Listen
Snow-blind

verb
1.
Affect with snow blindness.
adjective
1.
Temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice.  Synonym: snow-blinded.






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"Snow-blind" Quotes from Famous Books



... at my eyes—been snow-blind twice; look where my foot's half gone; And that gruesome scar on my left cheek where the frost-fiend bit to the bone. Each one a brand of this devil's land, where I've played and I've lost the game, A broken wreck with a craze for 'hooch,' ...
— Songs of a Sourdough • Robert W. Service

... film spread itself, objects became dimmer and dimmer, and at last all was darkness, with an intense horror of the slightest ray of sunlight. In this condition, many of the four sledge-parties reached a place called by us all, in commemoration of the event, "Snow-blind Point," at the entrance of a bay ...
— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn

... a movement among the snow, and voices, and immediately a light appeared at the window, shining through the snow-blind, which was swept down by an arm and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various

... all right," said the Superintendent. "Don't worry about that. And take your own time. First of all, how are you feeling? Snow-blind, I see," he continued, critically examining him, "and ...
— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor

... the news to me by two young men, who came on foot through the deep snow. The story was corroborated in a way that convinced me that it was true. They arrived on the 18th of March, completely worn out and snow-blind. I at once made a requisition on Colonel Alexander, commanding at Fort Ridgely, for troops. There were at the fort five or six companies of the Tenth United States Infantry, and the colonel promptly ordered Capt. Barnard E. Bee of Company "A" to proceed with his company to ...
— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau



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